New PC for the brother!

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

aahh, thanks for the tip. What should we be calling the 8-pin connector?

Good question. Actually by specification it is a:

Connector housing: 8-Pin Molex 39-01-2080 or equivalent

Contact: Molex 44476-1111 or equivalent

Which sounds sort of dumb. The problem is the EPS12V specification calls out a few connectors. Thus calling it an EPS connector is not quite correct since the specification names a few connectors that initially differed from the ATX12V specification.

A good example is the EPS specification was the first to call out a 24 pin motherboard connector for the main PSU to Motherboard connector. However, when we refer to the main motherboard connector we call it a 20 or 24 pin connector. The ATX12V specification adopted the same connector for the same reasons that the EPS specification did. Thus if we called it an EPS12V or ATX12 (current revision) motherboard connector we would be saying the same thing.

I don't know if the ATX 12V specification has adopted the 8 pin CPU connector? I am sitting here playing with my new notebook (as in I just got it online) and don't have access to all my PSU specification junk.

I guess in the interest of simplicity it would be best called an 8 pin or 4 pin CPU connector?

New PSU

I hit on the specifications thre.

Ron

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by ST!X

You can most definitely run it with just the 4-pin. Make sure you don't OC it too too much though.

I'm not planning to O/C, so I'm game.

[Capper]

A 4-pin 12V connector will work fine.

funny side note....a lot of motherboard manufacturers are going back to 4-pin connectors instead of 8-pin

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by Capper

A 4-pin 12V connector will work fine.

funny side note....a lot of motherboard manufacturers are going back to 4-pin connectors instead of 8-pin

Yep, just fine.

Yepper, as they anticipated CPU requirments for power to increase, they are decreasing. Go figure, more for less. :)

Ron